Many universities, vendors, institutes and government organizations are investing in cloud computing research:[1][2] In 2012 the European Commission has issued an analysis of the relevance of the open research issues for commercial stabilisation [16] in which various experts from industry and academia identify in particular the following major concerns: These findings have been refined into a research roadmap proposed by the Cloud Computing Expert Group on Research in December 2012 [17] which tries to lay out a timeline for the identified research topics according to their commercial relevance.
With the 8th Framework Programmes for Research and Technological Development, the European Commission is trying to support the according research work along the lines of the Europe 2020 strategy.